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Title:

Riot and revelry in early America / edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

viii, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Festivals--United States--History--18th century.
Parades--United States--History--18th century.
Riots--United States--History--18th century.
Popular music--United States--History--18th century.
United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Pencak, William, 1951-
Dennis, Matthew, 1955-
Newman, Simon P., 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Skimmington in the middle and New England colonies / Steven J. Stewart -- The rise of rough music: reflections on an ancient new custom in eighteenth-century New Jersey / Brendan McConville -- Crowd and court: rough music and popular justice in colonial New York / Thomas J. Humphrey -- Play as prelude to revolution: Boston, 1765-1776 / William Pencak -- Rough music on Independence Day, Philadelphia, 1778 / Susan E. Klepp -- White Indians in Penn's city: the loyal sons of St. Tammany / Roger D. Abrahams -- The eighteenth-century discovery of Columbus: the Columbian tercentenary (1792) and the creation of American national identity / Matthew Dennis -- American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic / Susan Branson and Simon P. Newman -- African American festive style and the creation of American culture / William D. Piersen -- The paradox of "nationalist" festivals: the case of Palmetto Day in antebellum Charleston / Len Travers.

ISBN:

9780271021423 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
027102142X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780271022192 (pbk.)
0271022191 (pbk.)
9780271021416 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271021411 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47651198

LCCN:

2001036462

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)